Monday round-up
on Sep 21, 2015 at 6:30 am
In The National Law Journal (subscription or registration required), Tony Mauro reports that the Court “has emerged as a political flashpoint, with candidates from both parties attacking justices and pledging to use ‘litmus tests’ to ensure ideological discipline in their future nominees.” In a post at Jost on Justice, Kenneth Jost contends that “the GOP hopefuls who discussed Supreme Court appointments in the CNN-hosted debate for ‘major’ candidates last week [Sept. 16] took hard turns to the right in their remarks.” In an op-ed for the Los Angeles Times, Michael McGough suggests that Senator “Ted Cruz, who urged the Senate to ‘swiftly’ confirm John G. Roberts as a Supreme Court justice in 2005, threw Roberts under the campaign bus in Wednesday’s Republican presidential debate.” And at the Constitutional Accountability Center’s Text and History Blog, Brianne Gorod responds to Cruz, arguing that, “[w]hen one looks at Roberts’s overall record, it’s clear that while John Roberts may not be the most conservative Justice on the current Court, he’s nonetheless very conservative.”
Briefly:
- Elsewhere in The National Law Journal (subscription or registration required), Tony Mauro reports that, on
“at least one measure of influence, veteran U.S. Supreme Court advocates and their firms appear to have the advantage over newcomers to the court: the language in their briefs appears more often in high court opinions.” - At Slate, Laura Bradley reports that Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg “is going to take a break from serving as Associate Justice of the Supreme Court for an afternoon to mosey on in to Chicago’s WFMT to guest host a radio program.”
- The Heritage Foundation has published a preview of the upcoming Term that includes both cases that are already on the docket and those that may be on the docket later in the Term.
- In the Los Angeles Times, Michael Bobelian reviews Showdown, Wil Haygood’s new book on the Thurgood Marshall confirmation battle.
- In The Wall Street Journal (subscription or registration required), Adam White reviews The Court and the World, the new book by Justice Stephen Breyer.
- At legalfeet, Robin Radner criticizes last week’s decision by the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Eighth Circuit in favor of the non-profit groups challenging the accommodations provided to them in connection with the Affordable Care Act’s birth control mandate; she argues that, “at the very least, it could lead to extensive coverage delays. At worst, it could mean a denial of access to a large number of women.”
- In podcasts for UCI Law, Erwin Chemerinsky previews the upcoming Term, while Rick Hasen previews Evenwel v. Abbott, the “one person, one vote” case.
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